Ledbury War Memorial
The Men Who Served
Memorial Views
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WW1 Memorial |
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| Pte Thomas ANDREWS | Thomas Andrews was born in Bristol but was resident in Ledbury Workhouse and described as a farm labourer in 1911. He was wounded in France in 1917 and invalided out. After hospital treatment he returned to his family in Ledbury but died shortly afterwards. |
| L/Cpl Charles Thorne BAGGOTT | Charles Baggott was born in Ledbury in September 1888. His father was James Baggott who married Marie Lambert in 1876 in Ledbury. He was one of a family of five with two older brothers Alfred and William. He died in France on the first day of the battle of Arras 9th April 1917 while serving with the King's (Liverpool Regiment). He was unmarried. |
| S Q S Stephen Benjamin BARNETT | Stephen Barnett was born in Ledbury. He was married to Frances Barnett and lived at "Glenwood". He enlisted in Ledbury and died in Egypt in October 1918. |
| Pte Frederick BARTLETT | Frederick Bartlett was the son of Robert and Amy Bartlett of Wareham, Dorset. He was married to Rose Amy Bartlett and they lived at "Cardiff Cottage", Wellington Heath, near Ledbury. |
| Sgt William Ernest BEALE MM & BAR | William Beale was born in Ledbury and living at Newtown, Ledbury at the start of the war. In 1901 his father had died and together with his mother and elder brother, John, he was living with his stepfather, John Pritchard, in Homend Street. His step-brother was Thomas Pritchard (see below). He enlisted in Hereford and received the Military Medal and Bar in December 1916. He died of wounds in Flanders in November 1918. 15th Btn? |
| Pte Walter BRADLEY | Walter Bradley was born in Ledbury and enlisted in the army in Ledbury while living with his parents, George and Mary Bradley at "Knoll View", Victoria Road, Newtown, Ledbury. He was killed in action in Gallipoli aged 19. He was unmarried. |
| Spr James BROWN | James Brown was born in Ledbury and married to Fanny Brown. They lived at "Home Lawn", Homend Street, Ledbury. In 1901 his age is given as 23 so he would have been around 40 at the time of his death in December 1918. |
| L/Cpl Arthur John BROWN | Arthur Brown was born in Ledbury, the son of William Henry and Jane Brown who lived in Newbury Park, Ledbury and the husband of F. Brown. |
| Pte John CALE | John Cale was born in Ledbury and enlisted in Hereford. His parents William and Mary Anne Cale lived at 25 Mill Street, Hereford and he was married to Minnie M.D.Cale. He was killed in action in Flanders in April 1916 aged 28. |
| Pte George L. CARTER | George Carter was born in Aconbury, the son of Lewis and Annie Carter of 26 Homend Street, Ledbury. His father was a Steam Roller Engine driver. |
| Stoker Benjamin CHADD | Benjamin Chadd was the eldest son of James and Emma Chadd of Southend Street, Ledbury. He was born in Ledbury and married to Fanny Louisa Chadd. Before the war he was awarded the Messina Medal. This was an Italian medal awarded to those who landed to help in the relief operations after the earthquake in Sicily in December 1908. He died on the cruiser HMS 'Good Hope' when she was sunk by the cruisers 'Scharnhorst' and 'Gneisenau' off the coast of Chile on 1st November 1914. |
| Tele Robert C. CHADD | Robert Chadd was the youngest son of James and Emma Chadd of Southend Street, Ledbury. He was born in Ledbury and unmarried. HMS 'Pelorus' was a light cruiser in the Aegean Squadron, based at Suda Bay, Crete. |
| Sergt Walter Clifford CHADD | Walter Chadd was born in Ledbury and lived with his widowed mother, Emma Chadd, at 63 Albert Road, Newtown, Ledbury at the start of the war. He was the brother of Benjamin and Robert Chadd. He enlisted in Ledbury and was killed in action in Egypt in November 1917. |
| Gnr Albert Edward James CHRISTOPHER | Albert Christopher was born in Ledbury in 1894 and aged 16 in 1911 census, working as a railway porter. He was the son of Henry and Emma Christopher and one of ten children all born in Ledbury. His father was a railway platelayer, originally from Sellack in Herefordshire. He was invalided out of the Army in 1916 and died in Bromyard |
| Pte Edward Reginald CONN | Edward Reginald Conn was the son of Alfred and Hannah Conn of Victoria Street, Newtown, Ledbury |
| Pte John COOKE | John Cook was the son of John and Ellen Cook of Ledbury and husband of Ada Cooke (née Becks) of 61, Bye Street, Ledbury. |
| Pte William Henry COOPER | William Cooper was born in Newtown, North Wales, the son of Robert and Ann Cooper who lived in New Street, Ledbury in 1901. His father was a coachman and came from Hampshire. |
| Pte John COOPER | John Cooper was born in Ledbury and was the youngest son of Elijah and Hannah Cooper of 61 Homend Street, Ledbury. He was unmarried. |
| Pte William DALLEY | William Dalley was the son of Richard and Mary A. Dalley who had fourteen children, all born in Ledbury and living at Homend Street, Ledbury in 1901. William lived at Bath Row, Birmingham with his wife Edith Annie Dalley. |
| Pte Frank DAVIES | Frank Davies was born in Ashperton and aged 6, living with his mother Emily at Trumpet Cottage, Pixley, in 1901. In 1911, aged 16, he was working as a footman for the Masefield family at The Priory, Ledbury with his name spelt 'Davis' on the census return. |
| Pte James DAVI(E)S | Jim Davis was born in September 1892 in Ledbury, the youngest son of Francis and Clara Davis of Smoke Alley, Homend Street, Ledbury. He was killed in action aged 22. |
| Gnr John DIXON | John Dixon was the son of Mrs A Dixon of Aylton Court Cottages, Aylton near Ledbury. |
| L/Cpl Samuel Victor DRINKWATER | Samuel Drinkwater was born in Ledbury, the son of Richard and Mary Drinkwater of Southend Street, Ledbury. His father was a farrier. He was unmarried. |
| Pte Ernest FARLEY | Ernest Farley was born in Ledbury and was 12 in 1901. He was the son of George and Emily Farley of 209, Homend Street and had an elder brother William aged 15 and a younger brother Dennis aged 7. His father was a railway platelayer. He changed his surname to 'Herbert' before he joined the Army and is listed as such in Army records. |
| Pte Austin Henry FLOYD | Austin Floyd was born in Ledbury, the son of Joseph Henry and Rose Hannah Floyd of "Roseneath", Woodleigh Road, Ledbury. His father was a carpenter. Austin died in Flanders in 1918 aged 20. He was unmarried. |
| Pte Edgar Arthur George GITTENS | Arthur Gittens was the eldest son of Arthur and Emma Gittens who lived at Piesnest, Parkway in 1901 but had moved to Stone House, Nunnington, Hereford by the start of the war. His father was an agricultural labourer from Redmarley, near Ledbury. |
| Pte William GLADWIN | William Gladwin was the son of William James and Florence Gladwin of 22 Lower Road, New Town, Ledbury |
| Pte Archibald HAMBLIN | Archibald Hamblin was born and lived in Ledbury. He was the son of Thomas and Barbara Hamblin of New Street, Ledbury (next but one to the Vine Tap P.H.) and aged 8 in 1901. When he died his nearest relative was his brother, Arthur I. Hamblin who lived at 27, Gravel Hill, Ludlow, Salop |
| Pte Albert Douglas HARFORD | Albert Harford was the son of William and Hannah Harford, born in Eastnor near Ledbury in 1896, living at Halfway House, Ledbury in 1911. He enlisted in Hereford. |
| Pte Leonard HATHAWAY | Leonard Hathaway was born in Ledbury and working as a baker in Sutton Coldfield in 1911. He enlisted in Worcester. |
| Pte Harry H. HATHAWAY | Albert Henry (Harry) Hathaway was born in Ledbury in spring 1898. He lived with his parents, Harry and Harriet Hathaway, in Brewery Yard, Bye Street, Ledbury in 1911. His father was a coach painter from Reading. Harry enlisted in Warrington, Cheshire. |
| Pte Victor John Vincent HENLEY | Victor Henley was born in Ledbury. The son of Vincent and Ada Henley of New Street and, before enlisting, was a grocer's assistant to Mr F W Taylor of the High Street. His father was a local man, a bricklayer. |
| Pte Frederick Charles HINER (HYNER) | Frederick Hiner was born in Ledbury and aged 15, a grocer’s apprentice, in 1901. He was the son of Robert and Emma Hiner of New Street, Ledbury. The family moved here from Cambridgeshire around 1880. |
| Pte Henry (Harry) HODGES | Harry Hodges was born in Ledbury, the son of Thomas and Emily Hodges of "Mission Room", Parkway, near Ledbury. |
| Pte George William HODGES | George Hodges was born in Ledbury the younger brother of Harry Hodges. |
| Pte Herbert HODGES | Herbert Hodges was the eldest son of Arthur and Mary Hodges of New Street, Ledbury. He was born in Ledbury and aged 8 or 9 and possibly visiting his grandparents, Thomas and Elizabeth Skinner on the evening of the 1901 census as his name is recorded twice. His father was from Dymock, near Ledbury. |
| Lieut Reginald HOWELL | Reginald Howell was the son of Thomas and Sophia Howell, of The Feathers Hotel, Ledbury who moved to Fareham, Hampshire. He was reported as wounded and taken prisoner in the Ledbury Guardian April 6, 1918. |
| Pte Henry J. JONES | Henry Jones was born in Ledbury, the son of George Valentine and Eliza Jones. The family moved to Bosbury by 1901 where Henry worked with his father first as a waggoner’s boy and then as a farm labourer. |
| Pte Harry (Jack) JONES | Harry Jones (known as Jack) was born in Ledbury, the son of George and Mary Jones of 22, Bridge Street, Ledbury and the grandson of Mary Jones (later Worthington). |
| Pte Ernest LANCETT | Ernest Lancett was born and lived in Ledbury and enlisted here. In 1901 it appears that his mother had died and he and his father, Ben, were lodging with the Buxton family in Bye Street, Ledbury. Ernest was 16 and a brewer's assistant. |
| Pte Ralph LEADBETTER | Ralph Leadbetter was born in Ledbury, the son of George and Frances Grace Leadbetter of 81, New Street, Ledbury. He died in Israel in October 1918 aged 20. He was unmarried. |
| Pte Frederick C.H. LOW | Frederick Low was born in Forest Hill, London, the son of Richard and Louisa Low. |
| Pte Stanley Haines MANSELL | Stanley Mansell was born in Ledbury, the son of William and Thurza Mansell of "Wild House Cottage", near "Underdown", Ledbury. He was born in Ledbury and his father was a carpenter. |
| Major Hugh Waldyve MARTIN | Hugh Martin was the eldest son of Waldyer and Georgina Martin of "The Upper Hall", Ledbury. |
| Capt Alick Gregory MARTIN M.C. | Alick Martin was the son of Waldyer and Georgina Martin of "The Upper Hall", Ledbury and husband of Louisa Helen Martin of Fir Hill, Droxford, Hampshire |
| C.S.M. Edward G. MORRIS | Edward Morris was the son of James John and Hannah Bella Morris of Much Marcle near Ledbury. |
| Pte Herbert Arthur NAPPER | Herbert Napper was born in Ledbury, the youngest son of Jabez and Ann Napper who lived at "Old Wharf", New Street, Ledbury in 1901. His mother was widowed and living at Victoria Road, Ledbury at the start of the war. His father had been a roadman and his name, Jabez, comes from the Old Testament Bible, Chronicles. |
| Sergt Arthur Jack NEALE | Arthur Neale was the eldest son of Joseph and Margaret Alice Neale of living at Lower Road, Ledbury in 1901. His father was a woodman from Warwick and Arthur was born there. |
| L/Cpl John NEALE | John Neale was born in Ledbury the brother of Arthur Neale. The family had moved to 6 Homend Crescent, Ledbury by the start of the war. He was unmarried. |
| Pte David Evan OWENS | David Owens was born in Betws-y-Coed in 1882 but living in New Street, Ledbury in 1911. He was married to Florence Mary Owens and they had a daughter, Elsie Honor, born in 1910. He was a monumental mason and enlisted in Hereford initially into the Herefordshire Regiment and was killed in action near Arras. |
| Pte Richard Joseph PALMER | Richard Palmer was the son of Bertram Joseph and Julia Catherine Palmer of New Street, Ledbury. He was born in 1893 in Shrewsbury. |
| Pte William PARTRIDGE | William Partridge was born in Ledbury. He was the son of William and Elizabeth Partridge and the family lived in Bridge Street in 1901. His father was a gardener. |
| Pte Arthur PEDLINGHAM | Arthur Waving Pedlingham was born in Ledbury. He was the son of John and Alice Pedlingham who kept a grocer’s shop at 6 Southend St., Ledbury. His battalion landed at Suvla Bay, Turkey on 9th August 1915 and he died in action eight days later. |
| Pte S. Charles PERRY | Charles Perry was the son of Samuel Thomas and Alice Perry of Bridge St., Ledbury. |
| Cpl. Ernest Arthur PHILPOTT(S) D.C.M. | Ernest Philpott was born in Ledbury the eldest son of Arthur and Lizzie Philpott. His father was a waggoner from Bromyard and they lived in Falcon Lane, Ledbury. Ernest enlisted in Hereford. He died of wounds in Flanders in 1917 aged 20. He was a Lance-Corporal. |
| Pte Gilbert Anthony PLAYER | Gilbert Player was born in Ledbury, the son of Thomas and Bethia Player who lived in Homend Street, Ledbury in 1901. He was married and lived at Rose Cottage, Victoria Rpoad, Ledbury. |
| P-O John POTTER | John Potter died from Turkish gunfire on board HMS 'Canopus' in the Dardanelles in support of an Allied landing on the Gallipoli peninsula on 25th April 1915. |
| Pte Philip John PREECE | Jack Preece was born in Ledbury the son of John and Ellen Beatrice Preece of 14 Homend Crescent, Ledbury. His father was a solicitor’s clerk. Philip enlisted at St Pancras, London. The 2nd DCLI landed at Havre on 21st December 1914 and entered the trenches at St. Eloi, situated in the Salient just south of Ypres. On March 14th 1915 at 5:30pm, the Germans launched a surprise attack on St Eloi exploding two mines under the British position, disabled two machine guns posts, and stormed the trenches forcing the British troops back through St Eloi. They were in control of the village by nightfall. Philip died there that day. |
| Pte A. Thomas PREECE | Thomas Preece was born in Ledbury, the son of Thomas and Kate Preece of Homend Street, Ledbury. His father was a navvy. He enlisted in Hereford and was killed in action in Flanders. When he died his nearest relative was given as his brother, W. Preece, of 35 Richmond Road, Hereford. |
| Pte Thomas George PRITCHARD | Thomas Pritchard was born in Ledbury the son of John and Elizabeth Pritchard of Homend Street, Ledbury. He was the step-brother of William Beale (see above) and husband of F.C.K. Pritchard of 31 College Street, Worcester. |
| Pte William Ernest PROTHERO | The 1911 census records that William Ernest Prothero was born in Longtown, Herefordshire, the eldest son of William and Emma Elizabeth Prothero of Homend Street (living in Abergavenny in 1911). Ledbury war memorial has initials W.C. and the CWGC record has his name as William Charles Prothero but confirms his age and parents names. |
| L/Cpl Harold Victor PUDGE | Vic Pudge was the youngest child of Henry and Mary Pudge of the Pheasant Hotel, Welland. He was married to Mary Irene Barker shortly before he joined the army in May 1916 and they lived in New Street, Ledbury. |
| Pte William John RANFORD | William Ranford was born in Ledbury, the son of Joseph A. and Annie Ranford of “Elms Leighrdquo;, Wellington Heath near Ledbury. He and his father worked on a fruit farm. |
| C.S.M. George Henry RICH | George Rich was the son of George H. and Alice Rich of New Street, Ledbury living two doors away from the Hiner family (see above). His father came from Kent. His wife was Ethel Rich. |
| Lieut Thomas ROGERS | Thomas Rogers was the son of Thomas and Alice Jane Rogers of Belle Orchard, Ledbury. He was born in Hartlebury, Worcestershire. He was an Observer Officer in the R.N.A.S. and drowned in seaplane operations at Ostend on 19th June 1917. |
| Pte Charles William SELLEY | Charles Selley was the eldest son of Thomas Charles and Jane Selley of Mabels Furlong, Ledbury. He was reported missing in action in the Ledbury Guardian of 19th January 1918. |
| Gnr Thomas Bennett SHINN | Thomas Shinn was born in Ledbury but living with his wife in Stroud at the start of the war. He was the youngest son of Thomas B. and Fanny Shinn who lived in Homend Street in 1901. His father was a carpenter. |
| Pte Mervyn Whittenbury SMITH | Mervyn Smith was the son of Harry Vernon and Catherine Ellen Smith of 31 Homend Street, Ledbury. |
| Pte Frank SMITH | Frank Smith was born in Ledbury in 1887. He was the son of Benjamin and Annie Smith. His wife was Evelyn Zeada Smith and they lived at 148 Union Lane, Ledbury. He was a bricklayer's labourer in 1901 and he joined up with the 2611 Herefordshire Regiment in Hereford. He was killed in action in Flanders in October 1918 aged 31. |
| Rflmn A. Dennis SMITH | Dennis Smith was born in Ledbury and was Frank Smith's younger brother. He had moved to Coventry by the start of the war and joined up in Marylebone, London. He was killed in action in Flanders in October 1917 aged 26. |
| Pte Harry SPARK(E)S | Harry Sparks was born in Whitechapel, London. In 1911 he was working as a farm labourer, living in Well Yard, Ledbury with his wife, Mary Ann, and their 1-year-old son. He enlisted in the East Yorkshire Regiment in Leeds. |
| Pte John STAUNTON | John Staunton was born in Ledbury, the eldest son of Andrew James and Elizabeth Ann Staunton, of “High House”, Parkway near Ledbury. He died in June 1916 aged 21. |
| Pte Albert Henry STEPHENS | Albert Stephens was born in Little Marcle living with his parents, William and Mary Ann Stephens at Bargains Farm, working as a waggoner. He joined up in Hereford. |
| Pte Francis George TARBATH | Francis Tarbath was born in Ledbury, the son of Henry Allen and Alice Mary Tarbath of Homend Street, Ledbury. His father was a groom at a livery stables. |
| A.B. James THEAK(E)STONE | The son of Edward and Emily Theakestone of Bradlow, Ledbury. Living at St. Pancras, London when he enlisted. The White Star liner R.M.S. 'Laurentic' was requisitioned by the Admiralty as an armed merchant cruiser. On 25th January 1917 on a voyage to New York, she struck a mine off the northern coast of County Donegal, Ireland and sank with the loss of 350 people. |
| Pte Frank WALTERS | Frank Walters was born in Ledbury, the son of William and Emma Walters of Belle Orchard, Ledbury. His father was a bricklayer. Frank joined up in Merthyr and died of wounds in England. He is buried in Ledbury Cemetery. |
| Pte Charles Dennis WARREN | Charles Warren was born in Ledbury, the son of Andrew and Olive Warren of Lower Cross, Ledbury. His father was a house furnisher. Charles enlisted in Hereford and died of wounds in Gallipoli in November 1915 aged 20. |
| Pte Frederick K. George WATKINS | Frederick Watkins was born in Ledbury, the son of George and Alice Walkins of Southend Street, Ledbury. His father was from the village of Pendock and his mother from Eastnor, both near Ledbury. |
| 2nd Lieut John Howe WATTS | John Watts was the son of Thomas and Alice Watts. He was born at Pendoylan near Cowbridge, South Glamorgan. In 1911, he was working as a bank clerk in Ledbury and boarding with Sarah Ruscoe in the Southend. |
| Lieut Harold D. WILKS | Harold Douglas Wilks was born in Ledbury, the son of Roland Herbert and Susan E. Wilks. By 1911, his mother had died and his father had a grocery and china shop in High Street, Ledbury. Harold had left home by then and was working as Clerk to the master of Epsom Workhouse, John White. |
| Pte John Jack WILLIAMS | Jack Williams was born in Ledbury, the son of Tom and Mary A. Williams of 18 Church Street, Ledbury. |
| Pte James V. WILLIAMS | James Williams was the son of James and Sarah Williams of Homend Street, Ledbury. He was married to Annie. |
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| Pte Archibald CHADD | Son of Thomas and Harriett Elizabeth Chadd of 31, New Street, Ledbury. |
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Acknowledgments:
Commonwealth War Graves Commission at http://www.cwgc.org/ William Collins Herefordshire and the Great War Jakeman & Carver 1919 Individual thanks to: Heather Hill, K.B.Coley, Heather Hill and Hazel Lein, Lynne Morton, Angela Thomas, Jacqui White, Vera Tagieff | |
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Presentation by B S Sharples, Bosbury, Herefordshire
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